Monthly Archives: October 2017

by Mastercard Singapore A perfect money management tool for people on-the-go, mobile banking is growing in popularity in major cities across the world. In Asia, Mastercard’s 2016 Mobile Shopping Survey found that consumers in Singapore are the biggest users of mobile banking applications in Asia, with 43.5% of respondents currently using such applications. Mobile banking applications enable you to store, …

A Spanish La Liga club with a Singaporean flavour is the latest to confirm their participation at the JSSL Professional Academies 7s which will be held in Singapore in April 2018. Valencia, which is owned by Singaporean billionaire Peter Lim, has confirmed its participation at the JSSL 7s and Professional Academies 7s which will be held in April 2018 at …

In a very same day with its open house along its DownTown Line (DTL) on Sunday (15 October), SBS Transit tweeted at 01.04 pm that there was no train service between DT1 Bukit Panjang and DT5 Beauty World Stations due to a train fault, adding that free bus rides were available at designated bus stops near affected stations. Around an …

The $78,000 medical bill of Mr Thomas Lukose has been waived by the hospital group which runs Gleneagles Hospital. It was earlier reported that Mr Thomas who was working as a security guard at Gleneagles Hospital, suffered a heart attack during work on 12 September and was taken to the hospital’s emergency department immediately. While his family wanted to transfer him …

GIVE.asia, an online fundraising portal deleted a fund-raising campaign for the legal action undertaken by Benjamin Lim’s family against the Ministry of Education and Singapore Police Force after receiving complaints from its community. There had been no notification of the deletion and the deletion was only made known to the family after screenshots of the deleted campaign was shared to …

by Joseph DiTomaso, co-founder and CEO of AllTheRooms. Airbnb knows how to make waves in the accommodations booking industry. Over the last few years, the San Francisco-based company has taken major market space away from more conventional hotel booking sites like Hotels.com and Expedia.com, and it looks like the company has once again invented a new technique that will add …

Train service was reported to be delayed along North-South Line (NSL) on Friday morning (13 October) by commuters, however, there was no official announcement made from Singapore Mass Rapid Transit (SMRT) on the matter. Many commuters took to social media to express their disappointment. The first tweet on the service disruption was made at 7.53 am, when one of the …

Over two weeks after World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) launched their campaign to switch to using palm oil that does not cause deforestation and haze, 11 companies have remained unresponsive. Two of these companies, Old Chang Kee (Ten & Han) and Polar Puffs & Cakes, are now the subject of a new, independent campaign led by a group of …

by Willy Sim I refer to your article: Public’s response to intended legal framework to protect police officers, “Respect needs to be earned, not asked or bought” regarding the needless need for Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) to further enhance legislation to an already lopsided and overprotective criminal procedural code in Singapore, one where even judicial officers are unable to supervise proceedings! …

by Anthony Ng I have been very disturbed by the continuing saga, the flooding tunnel as the most recent, with SMRT. I’m even more disturbed with the deafening silence from all those responsible, no less the Minister himself. What I fear is that eventually the blame game will repeat itself and some minion/s will be the scapegoat. Here I’m referring to …

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